Ukrainian President sent a letter to country’s PM with an offer to immediately establish working group to analyse the issue on termination of freight transport communication and trade turnover with temporarily occupied Crimea …read more Source: World...

Ukrainian President sent a letter to country’s PM with an offer to immediately establish working group to analyse the issue on termination of freight transport communication and trade turnover with temporarily occupied Crimea …read more Source: World...

Transmission towers along all four of power lines leading to Crimea were blown up two days ago, and activists reportedly have been preventing engineers from reaching the sites to carry out repairs …read more Source: World...

CRIMEA: Crimea declared a state of emergency on Sunday after its main electricity power lines from Ukraine were blown up, leaving the Russian-annexed peninsula in darkness after the second such attack in a matter of days. Crimea depends on Ukraine for its electricity supplies, providing only 30 per cent of its own energy, according to the...

By Noah Barkin Russia feels increasingly under threat from developments in the Middle East and appears to be serious about cooperating with western countries to resolve the war in Syria, Germany’s foreign minister said on Sunday. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, whose Social Democrats (SPD) are traditionally more friendly towards Moscow than...

After a plane carrying Russian holidaymakers crashed from the sky last month, tour operators rushed to evacuate tourists and suspended flights. Naomi Conrad reports from a town desperately hoping for a tourism revival. On a balmy evening in Sharm el-Sheikh, Ali despondently surveyed his tiny, mirror-lined shop, its shelves neatly stacked with...